Lawn horseshoe



Patented Aug. 8, 1922.

IIIII C. ZINGRE.

LAWN HORSESHOE.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. 5. I92I.

Slllratll CHARLES Z'INGRE, OF XUEBSTER GROVES, MISSOURI.

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Application filed January 5, 1921.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that l, Cnam-ns Zinsen, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at Webster Groves, St. Louis County, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Lawn Horses loes, ot which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciication.

My invention has relation to improvements in lawn horseshoes, and it consists in the novel details of construction more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims,

ln the drawings,-

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a horseshoe showin,nv my invention applied thereto, the hooiv or the animal being shown dotted;

Fig. 2 is a top plan ot the lawn-shoe with parts broken away, the horsesioe proper being shown dotted;

Fig. 3 is a sectional detail on the line ot Fig. 2;

Fig. ft is a sectional detail on the 4 4 ot Fig. 2; and

Fig. 5 is a sectional detail on the of Fig. 2,

The present invention has 'for its object to provide a lawn-shoe for horses, mules, and other draft animals which may be readily attached to the hoot ot the animal and to the ordinary horseshoe secured to said hoot, and as readily detached therelfrom, the primary object sought being to construct a shoe which will be light, durable` and not clumsy. The main use for such a shoe, ot' course, is on lawns where horses are employed to draw a mower for cutting the grass, although obviously the applica.- tion need not be restricted thereto.

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The advantage ot thc shoe will be appar-- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1922.

serial No. 435,092.

is a metallic plate 1, preferably of sheet metal., said plate` acting as a stitener for the pad. The plate 1 extends over about one-halt the area of the pad, the rear part not requiring it as it is stitfened by the socket plates 2 having upstanding portions 3 wherein are formed sockets t to receive the rear parts of the shoe S. rlhe socket plates are each fastened by a single rivet r passing through the layers of leather and the plates. The use of a single rivet permits ot a swivel movement of the plates so that they may be capable of adjustment to shoes of varying widths.

The plate 1 is notched at opposite points at about the center of the pad, the notches a permitting the insertion of anchor plates 5 terminating in loops 6. rlfhese anchor plates are also bounded by the layers a oit leather and are riveted thereto by rivets r so as to be absolutely held against movement. A strap 7 provided with a buckle 8 is scoured to one 'of the loops 6 and is adapted to be passed through the opposite loop for fastening the pad to the animals hoot. rEhe construction ot the strap is substanti ally the same as that of my it'ormer patent on a. lawn-shoe, No. 1,050,901, dated January 21, 1913, of which this invention is an iniprovement.

it will be observed that the front edge ot the pad is bent upwardly, the stiffening plate 1 being stift enough to `maintain this bend. rlhe purpose oli' thus bending the front edge of the pad is to prevent the animal from digging into the soft turf with his toe. The object of notching the plate 1 to receive the anchor plates 5 is to avoid unnecessary bulk at these points.

It will be understood that I need not re strict myself to a pad made up of layers ot leather but may resort to any material, even making the pad of steel plates entirely, which, it resorted to, would produce a pad ot small bulk.

Having described my invention, l claim:

1. A lawn horseshoe comprising a metallic stitfening plate, layers ot leather bounding the same, notches in said plate, and anc-hor plates positioned in said notches and extending beyond said layers of leather to form means for attaching the shoe to a hoof.

2. ln a lawn horseshoe, a horizontal metallic stitening plate extending substantially throughout the front half of the shoe,

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horizontal metallic socket plates located loehmd said plate and adapted to engage the heels of an ordinary shoei horizontal anchor plates extendingoutwardly from said plate and provided with upstanding ears for hoofattachingl straps, the upper and lower horizontal surfaces of all of said plates lying in a common plane and said plates heingsecured together by one or more superimposed layers of leather.

3. A lawn-shoe comprising a pad composed of a metallic stiffening plate bounded ing` bent upwardly at its forward end, an-

chor plates disposed in notches in the stiff ening late and secured to the covering materia socket plates sWiveled to the covering material7 and a strap adapted to he secured to the anchor plates7 the strap and socket plates cooperating to secure the pad to the animals hoof.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aliX my signature this `31st day of December, 1920. CHARLES ZNGRE.

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